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the Company, and now of the colony. Proceeding to the head of the Bay, he landed at Mishawum or 

 Charleston, together with " about fifteen hundred " colonists brought in the fleet. Shawmut across 

 the river, being a peninsula where wolves could be fenced out (W. Wood), several persons settled 

 there: the governor with most of the assistants followed before the close of the year, and the name 

 was changed to "Boston." Thomas Morton had returned to New England: but "Nov. 24th » a 

 proclamation by king Charles, forbidding disorderly trading with the natives, and especially supplying 

 them with fire-arms. & 



" The same year " (Chalm., and Holmes), by Robert Heath, attorney general of king Charles, a 

 grant obtained of the region South of Virginia "from the thirty-sixth degree" of Latitude, under the 

 name " Carolana." — Heath however appears " to have made no settlement ; " and in 1663, his patent 

 was declared to have become void. 



"1631, March 19th" (Trumbull, and Holmes), a grant of that part of New England extending 

 from Narraganset river one hundred and twenty miles on a straight line along the coast, and Westward 

 to the Pacific, after confirmation by king Charles, made over to viscount Say and Seal and his asso- 

 ciates : being the original charter for Connecticut. — A governor was sent over in 1635. 



" The same year " (Chalmers, and Holmes), George Calvert Lord Baltimore, visiting the Chesa- 

 peake and finding that the Virginians had formed no settlements North of the Potomac, obtained on 

 application to king Charles a charter for Maryland : but died before the formalities could be com- 

 pleted. — The charter was issued in the following year to his son Cecilius Calvert. 



"Sept. 3d" (Churchill coll. ii.), discovery by Thomas James of the Southern prolongation of 

 Hudson's Bay. Sailing to its termination, he wintered there in "lat. 52° 3':" the prolongation has 

 received the name of ''James' Bay." 



" 1632, March 17th " (Chalmers, and Holmes), treaty of- St. Germain, by which the English con- 

 quests and claims on Acadie, New France, and Canada, were ceded to Louis XIII. of France. — The 

 source of a long train of colonial difficulties. 



" In this year" (Johns, wond. prov. 26), the colonists on Charles river in want of food, but found 

 some relief in "wild onions" (Allium Canadense) and other herbs.* 



"June 14th" (M. Russell p. 291), proclamation of Socinios restoring to the Abyssinians their 

 ancient faith, also abdicating in favour of his son Facilidas. The Catholic missionaries were now 

 banished and excluded from Abyssinia; an abuna consecrated at Alexandria being already on his way, 

 to resume the ecclesiastical government. 



At this time, " 1631 to 1637" (Lubke and Lutrow), in Hindustan, building of the Jamna mosque 

 at Delhi. 



" 1633, Jan. 17th " (Chalm., and Holmes), pursuant to the treaty of St. Germain, the trading house 

 of the Plymouth colonists at Penobscot seized and plundered by the French. Forts were now hastened 

 and commenced at Boston and Nantasket ; and the planting of Agawam (Ipswich) was also hastened, 

 lest the French should get possession. "October," the frame of a house taken in a vessel up the 

 Connecticut river, notwithstanding menaces from a Dutch fort, and set up about a mile beyond : being 

 the first house erected in Connecticut. 



"Feb. 21st" (Hubbard, and Holmes), by the English government alarmed at the increase of 

 emigration, an Order of the council, to stay several ships in the Thames. 



"In this year" (Spreng., and Winckler). after his Itin. Cant, "in 1632," Thomas Johnston pub- 

 lishing his edition of Gerarde.f — He published his Mercur. bot. from "1634-41," and died "in 

 1647." 



* Antholyza JEthiofiica of Austral Africa. Transported to Europe, first flowered in this year at 

 Paris — (Cornuti pi. 79) ; described also by Linnaeus, and Andrews repos. pi. 210. Known to grow 

 wild in Austral Africa (Thunb. prodr. p. 7, and Pers.). By European colonists, recently introduced 

 by the w-ay of the Cape of Good Hope into Hindustan (Graham). 



Amaryllis falcata of Austral Africa. Transported to Europe, cultivated at this time at Paris, — 

 and named "narcissus pumilus polyanthos " by Cornuti pi. 154; described also by Linnaeus, Jacquin 

 hort. iii. pi. 60, L'Heritier sert. 13, and Ker. Known to grow wild in Austral Africa (Thunb., and 

 Pers.). 



Hypoxis stellata of Austral Africa. Transported to Paris about this time, — according to Cornuti 

 pi. 165, and named by him " sisynrichium Robini ; " described also by Miller, Linnaeus, Jacquin rar. ii. 

 pi. 368, and Andrews pi. tor. Known to grow wild in Austral Africa (Thunb., and Pers.). 



f Pelargonium Iriste of Austral Africa. Transported to Europe, termed "geranium triste " by 

 T. Johnston (Ger. emend.), — described also by Cornuti pi. no and p. 122, Linnaeus, and Cavanilles iv. 

 pi. 107. Known to grow wild in Austral Africa, its tuberous roots said to be eaten by the natives. 

 The flowers odorous at night (Pers.). 



